“Continue” in Lodash forEach

Question

I was looking over the differences between the Underscore and Lodash libraries and I came upon one issue regarding _.each / _.forEach.

In Underscore, the _.each function cannot break out of the looping. When using return false, it only worked as a "continue" statement. (which was the intended functionality in my case) = It forces the next iteration of the loop to take place, skipping any code in between.

In Lodash, on the other hand, returning false tells _.forEach() that this iteration will be the last. Is there a way to make the "continue" behavior also functional in Lodash?

Thanks.

Answer 1

In Lodash, on the other hand, returning false tells _.forEach() that this iteration will be the last. Is there a way to make the "continue" behavior also functional in Lodash?

You could return true , or just a single return (which returns undefined ), this value is different from needed false for "exit iteration early by explicitly returning false ."

 _.forEach([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], function (a) { if (a < 3) return; // continue console.log(a); if (a > 3) return false; // break // return undefined; // continue, undefined is the standard value of ending a function }); 

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